Sponsors
This event simply wouldn’t be possible without the help of some thoroughly awesome event sponsors. Sponsors help provide the infrastructure for the competition, monetary support, and of course, prizes. Please take a few minutes to check out the goods and services offered by our 2010 event sponsors:
Infrastructure Partners
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Linode.com offers customizable Linux virtual servers on high performance hardware for as little as $19.95 per month. Using the web-based Linode Manager you can deploy multiple Linux distributions, manage your virtual disk images, control reverse DNS, utilize free managed DNS, and access your Linode out of band with remote console access. Linode cloning, a private back-end network, and IP failover enable you to scale your deployment quickly and easily.
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GitHub is probably the most awesome way to share, find, and collaborate on code – both open source and proprietary. Comment on commits, watch your friends, monitor project development, fork your brains out, and contribute code using your favorite SCM and a beautiful web interface.
Heavyweight Sponsors
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Thoughtbot is a web application design and development firm, with a focus on building quality software with the Ruby on Rails web framework. We focus on building elegant solutions to our client’s problems; regularly contribute code to the open source Ruby community; and operate Hoptoad, the original “app error app”.
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Intridea is a leading web and mobile development firm, with focus on creating highly-usable apps for our clients. We produce outstanding results for our startup, government, healthcare, and enterprise customers using the best tools for the job. We specialize in Ruby on Rails for web projects, and create award-winning iPhone, iPad and Android mobile apps. Our highly-talented, distributed team of 40+ designers and developers create apps that function as great as they look. Intridea - building better applications.
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Tropo makes it easy to add Voice, SMS, and instant messaging to your applications, using web programming concepts you already know. A couple of lines of Ruby code and your app can be making and receiving phone calls, sending SMS and running as an IM bot. Developers get 100% free access to the platform.
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Koombea is a web design & development agency based in Barranquilla, Colombia with a small Silicon Valley outpost. Born as a two-person effort back in 2007, we’ve grown to a 30 people rock star team. Our team is divided in two: the Ruby on Rails development team and the UX/UI team. We can help you you get your web startup off the ground in a matter of weeks, by focusing on the Minimum Viable Product and iterating based on customer feedback.
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Active for nearly a decade, The Frontier Group is a web design and development team based in Perth, Australia. A team of 15, our core focus is building Ruby on Rails applications for startups through to big business, using Agile processes. We run the local Ruby on Rails Meetup and the Agile Meetup here in Perth, and there’s always a desk here if someone needs it. Oh, and we’re always looking for new talent.
Middleweight Sponsors
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Juicer provides developers with a hosted service for processing their image uploads. Instead of tying up their web apps with uploads and image resizing, they can use the Juicer REST API to get an image resized, whether it’s on S3 or hosted on their own servers. When combined with serving images with S3, Juicer makes scaling cloud-based hosting that much easier. Juicer is also great for developers who are doing a lot of image scraping, or who simply want to offload the processing of hundreds of images.
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Testing websites and Web-based apps is a pain in the butt. Do they render correctly in different browsers? Are they standards- compliant? Do they look and behave the way you want? The way you’d like? Mogotest is a verification tool for inspired designers and developers. We help make cross-browser testing easier, so you can focus on being more awesome.
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Screencasts.org is a new website dedicated to providing high-quality, thoughtful, in-depth video tutorials for popular programming languages, frameworks, design packages and other technology. We craft, edit and cut the filler, so the time you dedicate to watching each screencast is well spent.
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BDDCasts produces screencasts on Behavior Driven Development techniques in Ruby. Our most recent series walks the viewer through the process of upgrading a real world Rails 2.3.x application to Rails 3.0. The application we upgrade is URLAgg and provides more challenges, or opportunities for learning, as it depends on a number of gems and plugins that are in various states of Rails 3 compatibility.
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Sticker Mule is the easiest way to buy premium custom stickers and skins. Send us your artwork and we’ll do the rest. Offering print runs starting at $69 for 100, Sticker Mule aspires to be every Rails developer’s favorite sticker printing service.
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Speedyrails provides High Performance VPS and Managed Ruby on Rails Hosting services complemented by a pay-as-you-go Content Delivery Network (powered by EdgeCast) and Managed DNS services in the Dynect Platform. After more than three years deploying and scaling up Ruby on Rails applications, Speedyrails has the experience and right tools to guarantee your sites will run flawlessly and with the highest performance.
Lightweight Sponsors
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It can be hard it can be to keep up with all the latest in the development world and improve your craft while working like crazy. You’re not alone. Acts As Conference 2010 is a regional conference in Orlando, Florida, dedicated to helping you learn how to improve your craft from people like you, who make things happen. From October 28 through the 30th, you’ll learn the lastest techniques and tips for being an agile, Ruby on Rails developer with hands-on workshops, sessions, open spaces, lightning talks, and more.